Garment.



1, PARSONS.

GARMENT.

APPLICATION FILED MAYI4.19\4.

Patented Apr. 6,1915.

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GARMENT.

APPLlCATION FILED MAY l4. 19x4.

Patented Apr. 6, 1915.

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GARMENT.

iaison specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apt, e, 1915.

Application filed May 14, 1914. Serial No. 838,576

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My invention relates to improvements in garments and has for its object to provide a derice of the character described, in which a coat shirt and a pair of drawers are formed as a single article, which may be easily and inexpensively constructed and which will overcome the great amount of chafing usually caused by seams coming into contact with the crotch of the wearer,

With this object in view, the invention resides in certain novel features of construction and combination herein described and claimed and shown in the drawings wherein:

Figure 1 is a front ele 'ation of a garment constructed in accordance with my invention, the flap being closeo; Fig. 2 is a similar view with the flap partially open; Fig. 3 is an inner side elevation of a portion of the; back of the garment, the inserts being told ed to more clearly illustrate the contour of a pair of notches to be described, Fig. t is a similar View with a portion of the flap and he garment folded to illustrate the terror t 311 of one of the inserts; and Fig. is a pian view of one of the inserts detached.

in the accompanying drawings, 1 have shown my improved garment as including a coat shir 1, the upper portion of which is of common construction. The lower end of the back of the shirt, however, is formed with a substantially triangular flap 2 which is integrally united with said back by a contracted neck- 3, the latter being formed by providing a pair of subs antially ovate notches l in the shirt back, said notches having their contracted endsopening through the extreme lower edge of said back. As clearly seen in the drawings, the neck 3 is adapted to be positioned in the crotch of the wearer and is entirely free from seams at its central portion, thus preventing undue chafing.

By reference to the drawings, it will be seen that the front, sides and rear portions 01" the lower end of the garment constitute outer leg engaging members, these parts be ing formed sufliciently long for this purpose. The inner leg engaging portions of the garment, however, are in the form of substantially rectangular inserts 5, the latter being stitched along their upper and ontoedges to the material surrounding the notches 4. As most clearly seen in Fig. i, the free edges of said inserts form continuations of the flap 2 and of the lower edge of the garment, the free corners ofsaid inserts being formed with bnttonholes 6 as are like wise the three corners of the flap 2, as indicated at 7, these buttonholes 6 and 7 engaging buttons 8 and 9 which are suitably positioned on the front of the garment.

By the above set forth construction, it will be seen that I have produced an extremely simple and inexpensive garment yet one which will be highly efficient in operation.

I Clill'll'l as my invention:

A garment comprising a coat shirt having a triangular flap formed integrally with th lower end of its back and connected thereto by a reduced neck, said lower back end having a pair of substantially ovate notches in its lower edge adjacent the opposite sides of the neck portion of the flap, substantially rectangular inserts having one corner rounded, said inserts being secured in said notches with the side edge and end edgcconnected by the rounded corner stitched to the material surrounding the notches, the remaining' side and end edges of said inserts constituting continuations of the lowerend of the garment and of the triangular flap, said inserts forming seamless inner leg-engaging portions, fastening elements on the shirt front and co-acting fastening elements on the free corners of the liap and on the I JOHN PARSONS.

Witnesses:

HARRY B. AoAnn, MICHAEL J. TURANO. 

